Turkish drone strike hits PKK target in northern Iraq, kills one

A Turkish drone strike on Sunday killed a Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) militant and wounded another in Iraq's northern province of Sulaymaniyah, Iraqi Kurdistan's counter-terrorism service said.

The two PKK fighters were in their vehicle in the town of Chamchamal when the drone hit them, counter-terrorism service said in a statement.

There has been a long-running Turkish campaign in Iraq against militants of the PKK, which Ankara regards as a terrorist group.

Turkey regularly carries out air strikes into northern Iraq, which has long been outside the direct control of the Baghdad government, and has sent commandos to support its offensives.

In a separate incident, unknown gunmen shot dead a Kurdish Peshmerga officer in his vehicle in Erbil on Sunday, a relatively rare attack in the capital of Iraq's semi-autonomous Kurdistan region.

Iraqi Kurdish security sources said the incident was under investigation without giving more details.

(Reuters)